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Formation: Common Irregular Forms

There are a small number of verbs which are irregular in the present subjunctive: haber, ir, saber, ser, dar y estar. You might like to consider there to be three patterns among these verbs: the aya pattern, the e-a pattern, and the é pattern.

saber – to know a fact / how to do something

The é pattern

dar – to give

estar – to be (state or condition)

Person/Number

Singular

Plural

1st person

esté

estemos

2nd person

estés

estéis

3rd person

esté

estén

“Tricky” Regular Verbs

These verbs are not irregular in the present subjunctive. Starting with the yo form of the present indicative, they are formed perfectly normally. Nevertheless, they are frequently missed by Spanish learners since generating the regular forms requires one to know the irregular form in the present indicative.